The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do
But dream of the plundered auld Irish they'd slew,
"Yeh will in yer Vikings" said Brian Boru
And threw them back into the ocean.
The Scots have their Whisky, the Welsh have their speech
Their poets are paid about ten pence a week
Provided no hard words of England they speak
Oh Lord, what a price for devotion.
Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
Each wanting his head on the back of a coin
If the Irish had sense they'd drown both in the Boyne
And partition thrown into the ocean.
The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo chroí
Long may it stay between England and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Thank God we're surrounded by water.
I have great admiration for the fact that Ireland was the first country to "shake off the shackles of the British Empire"-Che Guevara.